Moonman and locals feature in screening at the Edinburgh Festival
“Out of the world and into Langholm” is a phrase well known to many travellers who have journeyed across the south of Scotland.
However, it provided the ideal headline for the hordes of scribes who gathered in Langholm on March 11th 1972, to capture a glimpse of a man who just a few short years before had addressed the world with one of the most famous lines of the 20th Century. For on that early spring Saturday, Neil Armstrong, arguably the greatest traveller of them all, set foot in the Muckle Toon to be proclaimed the first Freeman of Langholm. It’s a moment that is still fondly remembered by those who were there.
Now, 53 years later, Neil Armstrong’s day in the land of his ancestors is the subject of a short film which has been screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Directed by Duncan Cowles, it has been described as a “wry, beautiful slice of Scottish life and a unique tale about one of America’s most famous sons.”
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